When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

I have come to this planet to learn to love myself more, and to share that love with all those around me.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.